Jeff Epler's blog

About me

I've been a computer programmer since I first started typing in program
listings on a Commodore Vic 20 when I was about 8. My hobbies include
electronics, CNC manufacturing, photography, beer and winemaking.

I live with my wife, two cats, and lots of left-over parts from unfinished
projects in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

the counterpoint to 'use pax' is the awful antipattern (adopted from cpio) of taking lists of filenames as input. The method suggested in the article does NOT give proper handling of arbitrary filenames (those containing whitespace, in particular), you have to use an incantation involving printf(1) instead.

I think Leibnitz already proved that the touch bar is good, just following from the fact that in the past macs did not have touch bars, and now some do. I don't see why people are still arguing over such a basic point.

Like many people over the age of 30, I remember when the Humble
Bundle consistently offered Linux versions of almost everything in their
bundles.

Those days are long gone, and now it's necessary to scrub over the "DRM FREE!"
button of every title to find out whether it's on Linux.

But with this userscript (tested only on firefox
with greasemonkey), titles that are not available on Linux are automatically
greyed out and need trouble you no more.

If you're like me, and the number of times you boot a Windows machine to play
video games is way under twice a year, remember to vote with your wallet:
before checking out, open "choose where your money goes" and "developers", then
slide the slider for all non-linux titles right down to zero.